Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden burst of speed last week, the U.S. Congress added up the major foreign-aid bills for the current fiscal year, earmarked more than $7 billion for the nation's postwar allies and the occupied countries. The House and Senate quickly agreed on a bill authorizing $1,314,010,000 in military aid for European partners in the Atlantic defense pact (see below...
...occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World War II: $20 billion". Former enemies Italy, Germany and Japan got roughly a third of the handout...
...delegates' differences were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...
Even among artificial aids for insemination by the husband, Dr. Bacala drew sharp distinctions. Obtaining semen by masturbation or prostatic massage could not be countenanced, he thought. The use of aspiration or testicular puncture was not acceptable. "The only way which presently seems open is that of postcoital artificial insemination between spouses . . . What medical science does [in such cases] is to further pump or inject the semen, coitally deposited, right into the external os, into the cervical canal, hoping that the teeming millions of injected spermatozoa may swim their way up ... to meet an ovum.. This method, utilized...
...individually he is counting on the aid of Win Knowlton at right wing and Bern Floring at center half. These two men have looked about the best in Guyda's grab-bag workouts...